Germany's Urban Frontiers : Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City /

"In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany's many growing cities...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Poling, Kristin (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
Schriftenreihe:History of the urban environment
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chapter 1. Picturing the city: urban panoramas on the Leipzig Ring
  • Chapter 2. Conquering the wasteland: Oldenburg's urban empire in the northwestern moors
  • Chapter 3. Taxing the urban border: the persistence of Prussian city walls
  • Chapter 4. The shantytown frontier: city planning and wild settlement on Berlin's urban periphery
  • Chapter 5. Urban histories and national futures in the German empire.